Comments on: What does Sun think it’s doing? http://getanewbrowser.com/2007/05/what-does-sun-think-its-doing/ analyzing the business and technology of the web Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:34:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy Brudtkuhl http://getanewbrowser.com/2007/05/what-does-sun-think-its-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-34777 Andy Brudtkuhl Wed, 09 May 2007 20:15:52 +0000 http://getanewbrowser.com/2007/05/what-does-sun-think-its-doing/#comment-34777 It just seems to me to be too little too late - but I'm not a java developer. I would imagine this comes with great pleasure to you java devs out there. Mark - thanks for your comments. It's nice to hear from a Java developer on this. Let's hope it's not an applet fiasco :) It just seems to me to be too little too late – but I’m not a java developer. I would imagine this comes with great pleasure to you java devs out there.

Mark – thanks for your comments. It’s nice to hear from a Java developer on this.

Let’s hope it’s not an applet fiasco :)

]]> By: Mark Woodman http://getanewbrowser.com/2007/05/what-does-sun-think-its-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-34776 Mark Woodman Wed, 09 May 2007 19:38:25 +0000 http://getanewbrowser.com/2007/05/what-does-sun-think-its-doing/#comment-34776 Based on their announcements and looking at some code, it looks like Sun is trying to make it easier to do rich-media and mobile apps. The mobile angle in particular is a compelling one... if this works out to be what they want it to be, the compat problems with JavaME may be completely OBE. The potential appeal to Java developers - and there are a few of us out here :) - is substantial. If you fire up the JavaFXPadDemo, you can see your code edit results in the GUI in real time. Having worked on GUI apps in both Swing and C#, I have to say I absolutely loved that part. The declarative aspect to JFX is novel; I'm not sure how much that will help your standard Java progger, but it makes the switch from PHP5 and JS pretty easy. I started playing with it and was pleased with how "obvious" some things became. Killer app positioned to take-down Silverlight or Apollo? I'd say no. A great new set of platform possibilities for current or prospective Java proggers, I'd say absolutely yes. That is, of course, if JFX doesn't become another applet fiasco. :) Based on their announcements and looking at some code, it looks like Sun is trying to make it easier to do rich-media and mobile apps. The mobile angle in particular is a compelling one… if this works out to be what they want it to be, the compat problems with JavaME may be completely OBE.

The potential appeal to Java developers – and there are a few of us out here :) – is substantial.

If you fire up the JavaFXPadDemo, you can see your code edit results in the GUI in real time. Having worked on GUI apps in both Swing and C#, I have to say I absolutely loved that part.

The declarative aspect to JFX is novel; I’m not sure how much that will help your standard Java progger, but it makes the switch from PHP5 and JS pretty easy. I started playing with it and was pleased with how “obvious” some things became.

Killer app positioned to take-down Silverlight or Apollo? I’d say no. A great new set of platform possibilities for current or prospective Java proggers, I’d say absolutely yes.

That is, of course, if JFX doesn’t become another applet fiasco. :)

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